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Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:32PM (#50028955)
I just looked into their product, WOW that is cool. Wish them the best
Re:Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:23PM (#50028561)
Good on OP for being transparent with how it was built
Would be cool to get ahold of one of these in the US.

I do find it odd that the 2U model has less storage capacity than the 1U on their chart. That doesn't make much sense to me.

Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:17AM (#49565029)
No, I use i3 but terminal is still better because of how the applications size up
Re:The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:57PM (#49541580)
H1B is not about finding geniuses, this is O-1 Visa program.

The H1B exists to find laborers in areas where we have a shortage of qualified people in US. Given the fact that in many fields we have lots of American graduates that struggle to get jobs, H1B currently has no legitimate purpose in America. It should be abolished entirely.

Re:Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:35PM (#49483250)
I couldn't agree more.

Its like I'm reading a claude chat response but worse in every way. Its such quantity over quality nonsense. On the off chance it isn't obvious from the get go and you learn its AI written halfway through you feel taken advantage of as you assumed you were reading someone's actual thoughts. But instead you spent several minutes reading something thats just some generic LLM output.

Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:32PM (#49483217)
Yeah I would rather just have a single interface(the terminal) for all of the tools that I use that are keyboard driven by default. There isn't anything I need from a GUI that the terminal doesn't give me.

I also can't cleanly nest and stack GUI applications in tmux like I can with TUI programs. I think GUIs are for the most part tailored towards non-power users unless its something like video editing or 3d modeling that is aimed more towards professionals

Re:Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:33AM (#49466523)
How do people read these types of post with this AI flair, I couldn't read more than a couple sentences
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:56AM (#49464988)
Hope the first thing Nvidia does is change the name and logo
Re:OpenAI JalapeñO: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:32AM (#49449931)
massive aura loss from a moronic name though
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:00PM (#49365770)
blame openai they started it
Re:Mojo 1.0 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:17PM (#49263110)
I know right? Would be better to have a banner with the language logo than some totally out of place aislop image, almost makes you think this is a random person's blog and not the official Mojo site
Re:Mojo 1.0 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:16PM (#49263097)
Sure but at those times C and C++ had no immediate replacement, and if you were doing embedded C/C++ was your only option. The same cannot be said for Mojo.
Re:Mojo 1.0 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:15PM (#49263073)
This exactly. Doesn't scream confidence that its still closed upon release.
Re:Mojo 1.0 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @02:48PM (#49262764)
Don't see the value of using a language with a closed source compiler...

Much better options out there. Python already has libraries like Pydantic that offload performance to functions written in Rust under the hood.

Re:It's getting harder to focus every day on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:04AM (#49035843)
Pretty much the reason why I reset my X password, sent that to a friend then used HN for my tech news fix instead.

On HN eventually there isn't much interesting stuff on the front page, on X it pulls you in with great effectiveness

Re:Making on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:22PM (#49012067)
I mean its not the same at all. There is a very satisfying and gratifying experience from writing software yourself, AI hardly comes close. When writing the code and having to understand, I feel real connections being made in my brain and a deeper understanding of the language, domain area, and logical concepts. AI is simply not the same level of mental engagement and exertion.

But clearly for work/business requirements using AI is a no brainer for efficiency and speed(which are key concerns for a business). This is under the assumption that a professional is able to review and guide the agentic tooling for a proper output. In order to truly be a professional in terms of software engineering, you need to write a significant amount of programs manually for some time. I don't think that people with 0 prior experience with programming will be effective if handed AI. I use AI for programs for work, and have written manual programs in the past. I want to go back to writing things manually(as to not atrophy important brain regions) so will probably do some personal projects in this manner.

But I don't see a point in writing a book with AI, writing an email with AI, composing a message with AI. Because using AI is leveraging a predictive machine to expand on intent, and the intent in communicating is best done yourself. In my opinion sending AI content as posts, messages, or correspondence is poor application of AI at best, downright disrespectful at worst.

You need cooling, power, and at the data center I used to work at they literally ran out of power and couldn't get any more from the city. They actually built a new building in the parking lot so they had cause to request more power
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about. The datacenter I used to work at ran off the grid and was essentially quiet.
I think this is because the demand is so extreme for datacenters now that companies are building them in a manner that disrupts the environment around them. The newer ones are using on-site generators that are insanely loud and require multiples more power than datacenters have historically needed. For a rack with traditional servers with just RAM/CPU/Drives, 5kW is sufficient in most cases.

When you have racks that are full of 4U GPU systems that pull 3-6kW each, the power requirements per rack shoot up to 60kW+(with whole rack setups blowing past 100kW). So an AI datacenter requires over 20x the power compared to what they needed in the past. This either strains the power grid near the DC or they need to create on-site power to fulfill demand, which has noise and other concerns.

I work near a datacenter and you can't hear significant noise from the outside, maybe a slight humming sound but quieter than traffic. This is a DC that has been around for over a decade and uses power from the grid since most of the loads are non-GPU based.

Re:HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:17PM (#48996036)
Rolling release is actually the closer to bleeding edge version, I have been running fine with it. You can just set VyOS to auto update in the config if you want.
Re:HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:16PM (#48996024)
Rolling release has zero issues for me and is completely free.

If you want LTS(or you can just pin a rolling release around the same build) you can pay for a support contract. Similar to proxmox. The no-subscription product works just fine.

Re:Claude Is Not a Compiler on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:15PM (#48996007)
the shill is strong with this post
Re:AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:48AM (#48993048)
Man I just stick with the defaults on vim. I want to be able to install vim on any server I'm SSH'd into and have it all work the same way.

I do use Neovim as an IDE but thats a bit different, as lazynvim does 90% of what I need and the rest is just tiny changes that improves the experience for me. I also use AI to change my lua files simply because its faster and I'd rather focus on programming.

Would prefer very dim or red lighting. Also preserves your night vision
Re:HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:56PM (#48971593)
I'm more than happy with VyOS. Throw that in proxmox and you have an open source JunOS with zero license headache.

I do use Mikrotik for 2.5g switching though, zero complaints.

Re:Decoy Font on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:21PM (#48939706)
Poor grannies trying to read the price of some book she wants to buy she can't tell if it says $150 or $15.0
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:34AM (#48860579)
Who needs to spend time raising their kid outsource that shit to a an AI SaaS lmfao what is wrong with people
Re:How do you use Vim in the era of AI? on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:04AM (#48860117)
How are you a heavy vim user if you wonder if vim makes sense with ai? There are so many things to do outside of writing code that vim is used for.

Also neovim + claude code + open terminal pane in tmux is the goated combo anyway. Especially more lately you need to understand the code you are writing if you want to do anything important in software, and the best way to do that is neovim :)

Re:What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:59PM (#48754259)
Boooooooo

Keep learning yung ones

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